Things are looking up for the UK's mobile operators - they could be about to get £3.35bn back from the taxman if they're found to have paid too much for their 3G licences.
A new fast wireless LAN standard may be in for a long and ultimately frustrating approval process.
Jeff Raikes, the Microsoft executive most closely associated with the emergence of Office, has described the rise of the product as the highlight of his long career at the software maker, which will come to an end in September.
Sarbanes-Oxley won't only affect those doing business with the US, it could end up impacting the way everyone operates.
Security software maker Symantec's latest products use intrusion-detection technology that it acquired from other companies.
We've all experienced that irritating feeling upon walking into a nearly empty restaurant, only to see little 'reserved' signs on the empty tables, and to be told by the matre d' that no tables are available even as other people enter and are escorted to their tables.
Tis the season to be jolly, to give, to receive, to have a sherry or two and fall asleep in front of the telly. And, if you're a mobile network operator, it's definitely the season to share.
As expected, Senator Stephen Conroy -- who made a career out of picking holes in the actions of his predecessor Helen Coonan -- was named to Kevin Rudd's front bench, bearing the interesting new title of Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (BCDE).
It wasn't too long ago that vendors still made a lot of their money through equipment markups. Telcos were the same, with comfortable profit on ISDN, STD calls, calls to mobiles and other heavily used services padding out financial reports.
The CIO of a rather large Australian company recently told me that the firm was happy with its security set-up but then quickly made a U-turn. Would that statement, on record, effectively lay down a hacker challenge?
Five Aussie businesses take us behind the scenes during the early set-up phase of their tech companies.
To winemaker De Bortoli, Linux has provided the opportunity to save money and free up IT staff.
Want to shop locally for IT services but don't want to compromise on quality? The local services industry is finding ways to outdo global giants.
Microsoft chairman claims mobile phone makers have to catch up to the power of his company's software.
Outsourcing can be a contentious issue, but catering company Sodexho has found that when done right, it can make life much easier.
Although VoIP is now a mainstream product, an uncontrolled service compromises quality, which is why iiNet keeps its VoIP service within its own network, according to the company's CTO Greg Bader.
iiNet CTO Greg Bader explains the effect that companies such as Pipe Networks, which runs a 1.92Tbps submarine cable from Sydney to Guam and owns numerous metro-based dark fibre links, are having on data prices.
At this week's F8 08 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains how changes in the social-networking company's platform will benefit developers, as well as users.
At Pipe Networks' landing station tour last week, the company showed ZDNet.com.au how to fuse two pieces of cable together.
At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Lucasfilm's director of IT operations, Kevin Clark, spoke about the difficulties in networking and providing data storage for their large collection of companies--including locations in Singapore and the remote Marin Headlands. He discusses how they managed to move to a new...
With McAfee Wireless Protection, McAfee enhances last year's stand-alone wireless protection application with a few new features, however much of what you can do with McAfee Wireless Protection is available for free with Windows XP.
Consumer NAS drives don't get classier or easier than the Maxtor Shared Storage Plus, but we'd like to see Gigabit Ethernet on it.
With the right packet sniffers you can truly lead the dog's life. What's most impressive is network monitoring devices will help you see problems immediately. These tools can aid in analysis, migration, monitoring, security, testing, and administration of the network.
The Netgear WPN511 offers outstanding speed when used with its router counterpart, the WPN824, but its performance suffers in mixed-mode environments.
Once simply alarm systems for the network, Intrusion Detection Systems have evolved to encompass a whole lot more. We review six sophisticated security devices.
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